[IRIS] AGU Special Session: T22: Global Strike-Slip Fault Systems

[IRIS]

We would like to draw your attention to a special session at the Fall  
2006 AGU on comparative strike-slip fault systems:

T22: Global Strike-Slip Fault Systems: Oblique Divergence, Oblique  
Convergence, and True Transform Faults

Many major strike-slip fault systems are not true transform faults as  
they accommodate large components of oblique convergence and  
divergence. This is particularly true of a number of important ocean- 
continent systems such as the San Andreas, the strike-slip systems  
bounding the northern and southern Caribbean plate, the Alpine fault  
system of New Zealand, the Anatolian fault system, and the Azores- 
Gibraltar-Alboran sea system. These strike-slip systems are commonly  
sites of large scale mountain building and basin formation.  We  
encourage contributions on large-scale tectonic setting and tectonic  
controls on strike-slip fault systems, including investigations using  
GPS data, geologic mapping, paleomagnetic data, seismicity, active  
and passive seismic investigations for plate boundary zone structure,  
and geodynamical modeling.

Richard Gordon, Department of Earth Science, Rice University, Houston TX
Alan Levander, Department of Earth Science, Rice University, Houston TX
Paul Mann, University of Texas Institute for Geophysics, University  
of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX
Gregory Beroza, Department of Geophysics, Stanford University,  
Stanford, CA